On 4/16/16 6:46 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> And I don't really see the point in the libressl USE flag in this
>>> case; I think that was only needed so the slot-operator would resolve
>>> correctly.
>>>
>>
>> Somebody else may be better informed, but I thought that there was a
>> concern with having both libressl and openssl linked into two
>> libraries that are in turn linked to by something else (causing a
>> symbol collision), and the USE flag was necessary to switch between
>> the two implementations since they aren't virtualized.
>>
>> If we've solved that problem in some other way then by all means say
>> so. However, I thought this was the main tradeoff in letting it use
>> the same soname.
>
> This eclass doesn't build/link anything. It just calls /usr/bin/openssl.
>
You still need to be able to tell the difference between
dev-libs/{open,libre}ssl;
# openssl version
LibreSSL 2.2.6
# openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
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